SAN DIEGO ---- Kicker Nate Kaeding's equipment bag was primed for the Chargers' trip to New York on Friday. Or was it? What, no earplugs? Kaeding will face the team that kicked the Chargers out of the playoffs last year. The New York Jets were able to prevail in the AFC first-round playoff game because Kaeding missed from 40 yards earlier in the overtime stanza.

It's something Jets' fans will remind Kaeding of when the Chargers tee it up against the Jets at the Meadowlands on Sunday.

"I'm going to have some selective hearing when I go out there,'' Kaeding said. "They are probably going to get on me just like a lot of places I've been on the road. But that's part of the game, part of the fun and it makes it even more of a challenge.''